And God told Moses to write it down in a book, and tell Joshua about it, that He would utterly destroy the Amalekites.
We read afterwards in Deuteronomy xxv. 17, that God had been specially angry with the Amalekites because they had attacked the Israelites when they were faint and weary, and had smitten the hindmost and weak ones in the camp instead of fighting bravely with the strong.
It seems to me that we may take this first battle of the Israelites as a sort of picture of Satan's temptations and buffetings.
He attacks us where we are weakest. He perhaps tells us that God has forgotten us for a little while, that we are like those weaker Israelites in the camp, who were particularly exposed to the enemy!
Then what must we do, when we feel Satan is too strong for us?
We must, like Joshua, resist with all the fighting power at our disposal; and like Moses we must take the Rod of God—the rod of faith and prayer—and go up on the hill top and get nearer God!
Do you wonder what the hill top is for us?
It is kneeling in our room and asking Him to help us.
It is looking up with our hearts, and saying one word of faith to Jesus!
And when they had gained that great victory over Amalek, Moses built an altar to God, and offered a sacrifice, and he called the name of it—